Author(s): M. William Phelps

True Crime

As more than 2,000 people died during the natural disaster, another silent killer used the heat to cover her own killing spree. Amy Archer-Gilligan operated the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids in Windsor, Connecticut. What was thought to be a respectable business run by a pioneering woman was exposed as little more than a murder factory. Amy would be accused of murdering both her husbands and dozens (as many as sixty) of her elderly patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic - all for money. She would be convicted and sentenced to hang and her story would shock turn-of-the-century America and provide the inspiration for The Broadway sensation and classic film Arsenic and Old Lace. Acclaimed crime writer M.William Phelps has written the first book to tell the true story of greed and murder even more shocking than its fictional counterpart. Readers will enter a kind of Twilight Zone where a Bible-thumping caretaker and entrepreneur of the nursing home industry became one of history's most evil female serial killers. With first-hand accounts from Amy's inmatesA", riveting trial transcripts and accounts from the investigative journalists who covered the case, Phelps puts readers face-to-face with a woman who was both a Black Widow and an Angel of Death. Phelps paints a vivid, spine-chilling portrait of turn-of-the-century New England. This is historical true crime at its best.

About the author:
M.WILLIAM PHELPS is a crime expert, lecturer and investigative journalist who has more than 600,000 copies of his books in print since 1999. Phelps has appeared on numerous TV shows in the US and has been quoted as the nation's leading authority on the mind of the female murdererA".